I think you understand the issue. I did try
downloading firefox and am having the same thing
happen. When I open a new text document, it opens a
new desktop window. It takes a long time to load and
I'm not happy with it running this way. Any other
suggestions?
--- Doug Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe your question is about why does OOo open
> each document in its
> own desktop window. If when you say "more like a
> word processor" you
> mean the Micro$oft Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
> wherein each
> document is opened within one Word Processor desktop
> window, I read once
> that such an interface is in work.
>
> It is probably worth mentioning that the ONLY
> browser in common use that
> opens each page in a new desktop window is Internet
> Explorer. Every
> other browser I work with* uses a tabbed page
> interface. A much higher
> percentage of OOo users - the contributors to this
> list - when compared
> to the general population of computer users, employ
> browsers other than
> MSIE which is why your comparison didn't resonate.
>
> Doug
> * Mainly Firefox, Opera, Netscape, Mozilla,
> Konqueror.
>
> Karen Cooke wrote:
> > No. What I mean is, it opens documents like each
> one is a new
> > webpage. (As if each document was online). How
> do I get it to be
> > more like a word processor?
> >
> > Tim Wescott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:It's not
> clear what you
> > mean by "like a webpage". OOo does open a seperate
> editor window for
> > each document instead of having multiple documents
> open within one
> > window, but each document is a complete, seperate
> entity. It is very
> > like Microsoft Word 2000 in this respect.
> >
> > Does that make sense and answer your question?
> >
> >
> > ---------- Original Message
> ---------------------------------- From:
> > Karen Cooke Reply-To: users@openoffice.org Date:
> Mon, 11 Jul 2005
> > 08:31:42 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >
> >> Paul was answering my question about if I
> downloaded the correct
> >> java (offline or online). My actual question is,
> is open office an
> >> online software. My documents are each like a
> webpage instead of
> >> templates within the word processing. Is this
> normal?
> >>
>
> > -------------------- Tim Wescott
>
>
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